The Brookhaven leader., 1887-02-17
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| q court Of justice In himself
Some sinners are never found out In the
world around; they are not openly pun
ished; but for all that they don't escape.
| They carry q detective within from whom
they might escape IL they could tear out
their very nature Conscience finds them
out Any how conscience does worry the
sinner with remorse.
] must tell you what remorse Is; A fox
| was once caught in trap, but in the morn
| ing only one Of his legs was found. The
! wise creature when caught concluded that
| 1t would be better to limp back to his den
with three legs, than, having four legs, 70
perish in pain. He turned upon his leg and
! gnawed it through. The fox teaches you
the exact meaning Of remorse; for the word
means to bite backwards, to gnaw ones
| self.
Sin finds the sinner out when conscience
! devours the soul That heather New
! Zealander understood this, who gave back
! coin that be had stolen from the white
man, because Of the quarreling going on
! inside him, as he said, between the good
man and the bad man. In the newspapers
| there is often q notice headed, &C Con-
science Money" People who have cheated
the tax gatherer afterwards send the
money they should have paid him-found
out not by the tax-gatherer, but by their
| own conscience Many criminals have
| given themselves up to the judge because
| the prison, and even death itself, was not
| so dreadful as remorse, and some, Ike
| Judas, have killed themselves because
! death did not seem 50 terrible as life tort
urcd by guilty conscience.
Many men have lots of money and fine
houses and splendid health, and yet the
fixed scowl on the brow, the curled lip, the
fierce eye, the joyless face, the bitter
words, show that they are not happy.
Whyl Sin has found them out in the
world within, and they will not come to
the Saviour for pardon aud peace.
Even Nero the monster, had to fly from
the spot where he had caused his mother
| 70 be murdered. Under the lashes OF con-
science he fancIed that he was haunted by
her angry ghost and that he heard the
blowing of ghostly trumpet, ami wailings
over her tomb He was like the infiuel
Lord Lytton, who was sometime, so
| frightened that he ru> he'd into the bed
room of friend in order that he might, in
his company, shield himself from the ter
rors of the spiritual world. At last he had
to forsake his splen did mansion, be cause it
was too near the grave Of one whom be
had ruined.
The poet Byron confesses how his sin
had found him out. To escape from
thoughts Of SIN and self he took TO travel
ing, as thousands do; Tut he felt like the
unrestng Cain, for travellers beyond the
seas change their cline but not their con-
science Memory and conscience break
out like plague in a ship i'll which the
prodlgal hopes 10 sail ane W from his sin
# would he a grand mistake to think
that only great sim 5rS and great sins are
found out by conscience. De Quincy, the
OPIUM eater, tells US what he felt about 1T.
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more and more colossal, strlding after him
IN pursuit from forgotten days. One fol Y
most people would have thought little Of
1t one folly at the age of seventeen
haunted him for more than half century.
He used often 10 Hken conscience to the
whispering gallery in st. Paufs, London.
| A word whispered ever so gently is loudly
| re echoed at the other. In youth con-
| science child him in sullen whispers; in old
| age. at the other end of his life gallery, the
same conscience spoke to hlm as in peals
| of thunder The still, small voice which
the boy needed not returned 10 the old man
like the crack Of doom in terrible self-re-
| proaches.
What an awful discoverer OF sin your
| conscience is! Be sure your sin, whether
It be great or small, will find you out.
! Augustine says that his old SINS haunted
| him III MS dreams. CoWper used to sit In
| the farthest corner of the room, imagining
| that the voice OF conscience was loud
| enough for every one TO hear 1T Samuel
| Johnson told friend that the reason
! often started and spoke to himself IN COM
pany was that he was upbraiding himself
| for the sins of his youth. A man whose
outward life was blameless told me that
he once lay at deaths door for few days
He remembered his whole past life, or,
rather. he saw it all as III a picture. HIS
| mind was strangely strengthened and en-
| larged, SO that he was able to take in the
whole at once. Little acts done in his
| boyhood, such as unkind words and tho
stealing of little things from his mother
| and sisters, thousands of such deeds
seemed as if done yesterday, and filled han
with worse pain than that OF the body.
How pitiful is the case OF the man whose
sin, uniOrglven, finds him out when death
Is knocking at the door | have seen such
cases, and pray God that 1 may never see
the like again. Death comes and the dying
man not ready, declaring that he has no
hope! But death won't wait! God grant
that your SIN may find you out now, SO that
death may find You uHHiS-nayed.
SIN finds us out in the world beyond.
Moses does not say when or where our SIN
will find us out; but he says that it will
surely find US out some time and some
where. Many great sinners are never
found out on earth, especially IN foreign
lands where the law is weak; their guilty
secrets are buried with them in their
graves. In others, conscience lis been
slain or silenced so that they are not
found out in the world within, But tits
not so above" Many wicked men die
| calmly without any fear. Yet sin finds
| every sinner out before the great White
Throne.
The wonderful discoveries OF science
| show US, in many strange and startling
| ways our sins, if not forgiven, may find
us out in the other world. A church In
| Italy was so built by accident that 1t formed
what is called "a whispering gallery. one
! or two found out the secret, and when their
| neighDOrs were confessing their sins in
whisper to the priest they heard all dis
| tinctly at the other end Now, this whole
world may be by design what that church
was by accident. anG the sinners whisper
on earth may be heard by an ear in Heaven
Between earth and Heaven there may be
ali echo informing against the sinner.
Again, science proves that every ac-
Ton leaves d ni;s,k GIat can never be de-
stroyed-Oceans can't wash it out Apart
from pardoning mercy, we shall have to
face an indelble past. You know how
photographs are taken Well, some dis
eoverles suggest that all our deeds may be
Photographed in the skies. On the Judg-
ment Day the sinner may be, as it were,
ushered INTO room, the walls OF which
are covered with bright pictures OF all his
Sins.
A man Of science says: 1.-THE air is one
vast library, on whose pages are forever
written all man has ever said or woman
whispered" Then our actions, our every
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